Mind Map

I'm back again.

This time is from China.

 I was separated from the others that I know on the plane there,
For both flight, one to beijing, the other to chang chun,
I sat between Joel and Tian laoshi.
And it's not the window seat,
but the most troublesome seat instead,
it's the seat that is right in the middle of the whole row of seats.
Oh man, that's the seat that i dislike most,
because i can't actually see the view(I want DAWN!),
and when I need to go to the washroom I gotta go "excuse-me-ing" all the way.
X_X

It was so embarrassing that I had to ask tian laoshi how to address him again because I've forgotten his name due to my Dori character.=  ="
I think I probably didn't sleep well during the flight,
I woke up for a few times to check my watch for time,
but didn't manage to do it because it was too dark=  =
then, what's surprising here came in,
Tian laoshi's arm came into view and showed me the time.=  =""
I really got a fright.XD

Getting off the plane is more surprising,
instead of going throught the tunnel which is link to the main building of the airport like what it usually is,
we got off the plane by going off the staircase that leads to the ground floor.
COOL!
that's the first time I'm doing that!
Then from there we boarded a bus that bring us to the airport's main building.
We transferred to a much smaller plane which is printed with the BeiJing Olympic 2008 logos.
Within an hour,
we've reached our destination,
Chang chun.

The hotel was quite alright with the things we need there.
Jia Hui was my room mate and Yiu Sum stayed with chui laoshi.
We invited Yiu Sum and Joyce over to prac,
though throughout the process,
Jia Hui has been wanting to go out and look around.XDD
oh yeah, and Joyce Mum came in to give us a big bag of cheeries,
which I went out to distribute to the others.
I love the process of knocking on people's door and give them a SURPRISE!
I went to Hong Ming and Kelvin Ang's room and they showed me a few card tricks,
I think i must had forgotten about time there because I was too fascinated,
when I go back to our room, 
I see a liu qin and score.
Ooops...Yiu Sum is here and coundn't get it!
I found Yiu Sum at Joyce's door and we entered the room to see Jia Hui in DEEP sleep that we couldn't wake her up.
We gave up waking her up in the end because he was pissed off, 
thus we went to Qian and Dawn's room to have some snack and gossip a little.
The weirdest thing is that Jia Hui woke up once Wan Gui got into our room to find for Joyce, who was as Jia Hui, fallen into DEEP sleep that door bells can't work for her. XD

The next morning when I woke up it was about 0630 and the sky was already cleared like 9am in singapore,
gave me a fright 'cause I thought that I'd overslept. LOL

The first performance...I sorta screwed it with lots of mistakes.
haizzzzz....
But the instruments that we've got really suck!
There's only 3 timpines and the luo was broken,
my celesta has some notes that last for a very long time and some really short till it sounds like staccato=  ="

In conclusion,
the resources are bad.

Well, but I think we can't blame them,
they are not familiar with us (I guess) and they do treasure their instruments very much (can tell).

After the performance we got to cello's room where we got to know more about Mr Ng my sec1 form teacher from his bacthmate and they were playing Bridge with shao dong,
and I fell asleep there because i was too tired and I dun really like card games(they're complex and not relaxing!=  =")

The BeiJing performance is the opposite,
the people are much more helpful and the timpines rocks! XDD

That performance is much more successful.
It's really cool to see the composer actually came in.
There was 5 cameras in the theatre recording and the emcee is someone from the radio broadcast,
I didn't know that it would be so cool! XD
\We even had supper after the performance but i dun really had much appetite because I was sort of feeling down.

I was suppose to take a photo with Eugene as he promised but didn't manage to because he was quite unwilling i guess and I dun like to force him=( Thus he gave me a bottle of chewing gum as compensation(?). He was really cute when I went to see him and ask him about it, he just stood still on the spot as if I was gonna to punish him, ren4 wo3 chu2 zhi4. XD

Yiu Sum, Jia Hui, Shu Hui, Jia Min, Kelvin, Hong Min, Joel, Esther, Wei Xun and many others, went to KTV at night after 1am, where we sang till about 4 am(Kelvin was very high[<--according to hong min] thus they stayed till 5 am in the morning), that was the first time in my life that I got into a KTV. The smell of cigarette is sorta unbearable for me. Oh, I sang 2 songs, one ordered by Kelvin for me which is zui shou zi de mo seng ren by Elva, which he heard me singing it on the night before when his phone was playing it =P, and liang shan bo and Juliet because Hong Ming can't sing the high notes by Gary. XD

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The trips around China is very good.
Sceneries are great!
We went to Chang Bai Shan wher I touched snow for the first time in my life and see the frozen lake and touched the cold water. 
And I got to know about Qing Lun who really had lots of things to talk about while we walk down the undergroynd forest, where there was lots and lots of steps, my leg muscle ache on the next day due to that. XD

And this is the first time I've gone so far north till I'm near Russia and North Korea.
Even the road signs has Korean characters on it!
COOL!

The wind is pretty dry though,
my lips really hurt as I dun really put lip gloss.=  ="

But the food isn't really good ther I think, we have a couple of people ill and Jian Feng kept vomitting on the bus ride. Kelvin got diarrhoea but he kept trying to bear with it.@  @" 

We also visited some chinese medicine shop, and I got disgusted by it at the view of the deer heads. darn, why are they so disgusting and sick, they are SICK!! what had the deers done wrong? Human are sick sick sick, I felt ashamed as a human myself! <--over-reacting

I enjoyed looking at the simplicity of farm life there. The buildings are short with one one or two floors and it's mostly flat lands around the place where the locals farm. I saw ladies washing clothes by the river and innocent children playing around. The joy they have, the fun that city kids like us would never experience. Suddenly I felt like escaping from the pressure and stress I got in Singapore. The air is dryer here, things evaporate faster. The air in Singapore is simply too suffocating for me. The humid, the stress, the pressure flooded the air. But in Yian Ji (the province we were in) was different. They are farmers, experiencing simpler lives.

On the train ride from yianji to beijing,
which lasted 23 hours,
we played lots of card games and I mugged quite lotsXD
Our cubicle had turned into a gambling den.XD

The cubicles are quite small,
There were six beds in total and 3 beds on each side.
I stayed on the top deck,
Jia Hui was at my left and Kelvin was at my right.
The bed is too close to the ceiling that we had difficulties sitting,
my shoulder ache after the train ride due to bending it for a long period of time while reading my Biology notes.

(But...I think I still didn't complete many works,
because I'm still flooded with them now.)

I took lots and lots of photos in the trip!
And finally got photos of Euegen, the zhi1 zin1 gege! XDD

For the shopping part...
hmm...I do enjoy buying everything by dividing the price by 5 XDD
I didn't manage to buy a lot of books due to the lack of time.
But I got a couple of CDs for yang qin, 
and tea, with the "magical cup set". XD

I went with Hong Ming, Shu Hui(which I mistaken as Shu Min =  ="""), Joel and Jian Feng,
they're more towards the bookstores. yay
while Kelvin stayed with Yiu Sum and JiaHui to go around look at clothes.

I don't really know what to buy without any plan.

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I met lot and lot of people in CCO,
and get to know many of them.

I will miss you all.

really.

At the moment when I left the airport,
I can feel it.

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Loving CCO.